X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/1270059fa7cf720bc0533c2cdfe6370923ae4e20..4fbf6829491780534e93bd27e5a749e608c97b46:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7dba577..4f54a52 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rg3/youtube-dl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rg3/youtube-dl) +[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms # INSTALLATION -To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, OS X, etc.), type: +To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, macOS, etc.), type: sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ You can also use pip: This command will update youtube-dl if you have already installed it. See the [pypi page](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/youtube_dl) for more information. -OS X users can install youtube-dl with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/): +macOS users can install youtube-dl with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/): brew install youtube-dl @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Or with [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/): sudo port install youtube-dl -Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) for how to check out and work with the git repository. For further options, including PGP signatures, see the [youtube-dl Download Page](https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html). +Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) for how to check out and work with the git repository. For further options, including PGP signatures, see the [youtube-dl Download Page](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html). # DESCRIPTION **youtube-dl** is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on macOS. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) fo ## Network Options: --proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. - To enable experimental SOCKS proxy, specify - a proper scheme. For example + To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper + scheme. For example socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/. Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection --socket-timeout SECONDS Time to wait before giving up, in seconds @@ -106,16 +106,18 @@ Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) fo --geo-verification-proxy URL Use this proxy to verify the IP address for some geo-restricted sites. The default proxy specified by --proxy (or none, if the - options is not present) is used for the + option is not present) is used for the actual downloading. --geo-bypass Bypass geographic restriction via faking - X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (experimental) + X-Forwarded-For HTTP header --no-geo-bypass Do not bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header - (experimental) --geo-bypass-country CODE Force bypass geographic restriction with explicitly provided two-letter ISO 3166-2 - country code (experimental) + country code + --geo-bypass-ip-block IP_BLOCK Force bypass geographic restriction with + explicitly provided IP block in CIDR + notation ## Video Selection: --playlist-start NUMBER Playlist video to start at (default is 1) @@ -206,7 +208,7 @@ Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) fo --playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order --playlist-random Download playlist videos in random order --xattr-set-filesize Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with - expected file size (experimental) + expected file size --hls-prefer-native Use the native HLS downloader instead of ffmpeg --hls-prefer-ffmpeg Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS @@ -223,7 +225,9 @@ Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) fo ## Filesystem Options: -a, --batch-file FILE File containing URLs to download ('-' for - stdin) + stdin), one URL per line. Lines starting + with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as + comments and ignored. --id Use only video ID in file name -o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template, see the "OUTPUT TEMPLATE" for all the info @@ -423,9 +427,9 @@ Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) fo default; fix file if we can, warn otherwise) --prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the - postprocessors (default) - --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the postprocessors + --prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the + postprocessors (default) --ffmpeg-location PATH Location of the ffmpeg/avconv binary; either the path to the binary or its containing directory. @@ -438,7 +442,7 @@ Alternatively, refer to the [developer instructions](#developer-instructions) fo # CONFIGURATION -You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and OS X, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\\youtube-dl.conf`. Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to create it yourself. +You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux and macOS, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\\youtube-dl.conf`. Note that by default configuration file may not exist so you may need to create it yourself. For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your home directory: ``` @@ -492,7 +496,7 @@ The `-o` option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names. **tl;dr:** [navigate me to examples](#output-template-examples). -The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in `youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video"`. However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according to [python string formatting operations](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting). For example, `%(NAME)s` or `%(NAME)05d`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by a formatting operations. Allowed names along with sequence type are: +The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in `youtube-dl -o funny_video.flv "https://some/video"`. However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences may be formatted according to [python string formatting operations](https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting). For example, `%(NAME)s` or `%(NAME)05d`. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parentheses, followed by formatting operations. Allowed names along with sequence type are: - `id` (string): Video identifier - `title` (string): Video title @@ -507,6 +511,8 @@ The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single f - `timestamp` (numeric): UNIX timestamp of the moment the video became available - `upload_date` (string): Video upload date (YYYYMMDD) - `uploader_id` (string): Nickname or id of the video uploader + - `channel` (string): Full name of the channel the video is uploaded on + - `channel_id` (string): Id of the channel - `location` (string): Physical location where the video was filmed - `duration` (numeric): Length of the video in seconds - `view_count` (numeric): How many users have watched the video on the platform @@ -636,6 +642,7 @@ The simplest case is requesting a specific format, for example with `-f 22` you You can also use a file extension (currently `3gp`, `aac`, `flv`, `m4a`, `mp3`, `mp4`, `ogg`, `wav`, `webm` are supported) to download the best quality format of a particular file extension served as a single file, e.g. `-f webm` will download the best quality format with the `webm` extension served as a single file. You can also use special names to select particular edge case formats: + - `best`: Select the best quality format represented by a single file with video and audio. - `worst`: Select the worst quality format represented by a single file with video and audio. - `bestvideo`: Select the best quality video-only format (e.g. DASH video). May not be available. @@ -652,6 +659,7 @@ If you want to download several formats of the same video use a comma as a separ You can also filter the video formats by putting a condition in brackets, as in `-f "best[height=720]"` (or `-f "[filesize>10M]"`). The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons `<`, `<=`, `>`, `>=`, `=` (equals), `!=` (not equals): + - `filesize`: The number of bytes, if known in advance - `width`: Width of the video, if known - `height`: Height of the video, if known @@ -661,7 +669,8 @@ The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons `<`, `<=`, `>`, ` - `asr`: Audio sampling rate in Hertz - `fps`: Frame rate -Also filtering work for comparisons `=` (equals), `!=` (not equals), `^=` (begins with), `$=` (ends with), `*=` (contains) and following string meta fields: +Also filtering work for comparisons `=` (equals), `^=` (starts with), `$=` (ends with), `*=` (contains) and following string meta fields: + - `ext`: File extension - `acodec`: Name of the audio codec in use - `vcodec`: Name of the video codec in use @@ -669,6 +678,8 @@ Also filtering work for comparisons `=` (equals), `!=` (not equals), `^=` (begin - `protocol`: The protocol that will be used for the actual download, lower-case (`http`, `https`, `rtsp`, `rtmp`, `rtmpe`, `mms`, `f4m`, `ism`, `http_dash_segments`, `m3u8`, or `m3u8_native`) - `format_id`: A short description of the format +Any string comparison may be prefixed with negation `!` in order to produce an opposite comparison, e.g. `!*=` (does not contain). + Note that none of the aforementioned meta fields are guaranteed to be present since this solely depends on the metadata obtained by particular extractor, i.e. the metadata offered by the video hoster. Formats for which the value is not known are excluded unless you put a question mark (`?`) after the operator. You can combine format filters, so `-f "[height <=? 720][tbr>500]"` selects up to 720p videos (or videos where the height is not known) with a bitrate of at least 500 KBit/s. @@ -677,7 +688,7 @@ You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file using `-f \d+)' +``` + +Incorrect: +```python +r'(id|ID)=(?P\d+)' +``` + + +#### Make regular expressions relaxed and flexible + +When using regular expressions try to write them fuzzy, relaxed and flexible, skipping insignificant parts that are more likely to change, allowing both single and double quotes for quoted values and so on. -#### Example +##### Example Say you need to extract `title` from the following HTML code: @@ -1160,13 +1199,121 @@ title = self._search_regex( webpage, 'title', group='title') ``` -### Use safe conversion functions +### Long lines policy + +There is a soft limit to keep lines of code under 80 characters long. This means it should be respected if possible and if it does not make readability and code maintenance worse. + +For example, you should **never** split long string literals like URLs or some other often copied entities over multiple lines to fit this limit: + +Correct: + +```python +'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' +``` + +Incorrect: + +```python +'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZTN594JQw&list=' +'PLMYEtVRpaqY00V9W81Cwmzp6N6vZqfUKD4' +``` + +### Inline values + +Extracting variables is acceptable for reducing code duplication and improving readability of complex expressions. However, you should avoid extracting variables used only once and moving them to opposite parts of the extractor file, which makes reading the linear flow difficult. + +#### Example + +Correct: + +```python +title = self._html_search_regex(r'([^<]+)', webpage, 'title') +``` + +Incorrect: + +```python +TITLE_RE = r'([^<]+)' +# ...some lines of code... +title = self._html_search_regex(TITLE_RE, webpage, 'title') +``` + +### Collapse fallbacks + +Multiple fallback values can quickly become unwieldy. Collapse multiple fallback values into a single expression via a list of patterns. + +#### Example + +Good: + +```python +description = self._html_search_meta( + ['og:description', 'description', 'twitter:description'], + webpage, 'description', default=None) +``` + +Unwieldy: -Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from `utils`: `int_or_none`, `float_or_none`. Use them for string to number conversions as well. +```python +description = ( + self._og_search_description(webpage, default=None) + or self._html_search_meta('description', webpage, default=None) + or self._html_search_meta('twitter:description', webpage, default=None)) +``` + +Methods supporting list of patterns are: `_search_regex`, `_html_search_regex`, `_og_search_property`, `_html_search_meta`. + +### Trailing parentheses + +Always move trailing parentheses after the last argument. + +#### Example + +Correct: + +```python + lambda x: x['ResultSet']['Result'][0]['VideoUrlSet']['VideoUrl'], + list) +``` + +Incorrect: + +```python + lambda x: x['ResultSet']['Result'][0]['VideoUrlSet']['VideoUrl'], + list, +) +``` + +### Use convenience conversion and parsing functions + +Wrap all extracted numeric data into safe functions from [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py): `int_or_none`, `float_or_none`. Use them for string to number conversions as well. + +Use `url_or_none` for safe URL processing. + +Use `try_get` for safe metadata extraction from parsed JSON. + +Use `unified_strdate` for uniform `upload_date` or any `YYYYMMDD` meta field extraction, `unified_timestamp` for uniform `timestamp` extraction, `parse_filesize` for `filesize` extraction, `parse_count` for count meta fields extraction, `parse_resolution`, `parse_duration` for `duration` extraction, `parse_age_limit` for `age_limit` extraction. + +Explore [`youtube_dl/utils.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/utils.py) for more useful convenience functions. + +#### More examples + +##### Safely extract optional description from parsed JSON +```python +description = try_get(response, lambda x: x['result']['video'][0]['summary'], compat_str) +``` + +##### Safely extract more optional metadata +```python +video = try_get(response, lambda x: x['result']['video'][0], dict) or {} +description = video.get('summary') +duration = float_or_none(video.get('durationMs'), scale=1000) +view_count = int_or_none(video.get('views')) +``` # EMBEDDING YOUTUBE-DL -youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language. If you encounter any problems parsing its output, feel free to [create a report](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/new). +youtube-dl makes the best effort to be a good command-line program, and thus should be callable from any programming language. If you encounter any problems parsing its output, feel free to [create a report](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/new). From a Python program, you can embed youtube-dl in a more powerful fashion, like this: @@ -1179,7 +1326,7 @@ with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc']) ``` -Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py`](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/3e4cedf9e8cd3157df2457df7274d0c842421945/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L137-L312). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object. +Most likely, you'll want to use various options. For a list of options available, have a look at [`youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py`](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/3e4cedf9e8cd3157df2457df7274d0c842421945/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L137-L312). For a start, if you want to intercept youtube-dl's output, set a `logger` object. Here's a more complete example of a program that outputs only errors (and a short message after the download is finished), and downloads/converts the video to an mp3 file: @@ -1220,7 +1367,7 @@ with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: # BUGS -Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: . Unless you were prompted to or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email. For discussions, join us in the IRC channel [#youtube-dl](irc://chat.freenode.net/#youtube-dl) on freenode ([webchat](https://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=youtube-dl)). +Bugs and suggestions should be reported at: . Unless you were prompted to or there is another pertinent reason (e.g. GitHub fails to accept the bug report), please do not send bug reports via personal email. For discussions, join us in the IRC channel [#youtube-dl](irc://chat.freenode.net/#youtube-dl) on freenode ([webchat](https://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=youtube-dl)). **Please include the full output of youtube-dl when run with `-v`**, i.e. **add** `-v` flag to **your command line**, copy the **whole** output and post it in the issue body wrapped in \`\`\` for better formatting. It should look similar to this: ``` @@ -1266,11 +1413,11 @@ Before reporting any issue, type `youtube-dl -U`. This should report that you're ### Is the issue already documented? -Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to open. Search at the top of the window or browse the [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues) of this repository. If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid activity. +Make sure that someone has not already opened the issue you're trying to open. Search at the top of the window or browse the [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/search?type=Issues) of this repository. If there is an issue, feel free to write something along the lines of "This affects me as well, with version 2015.01.01. Here is some more information on the issue: ...". While some issues may be old, a new post into them often spurs rapid activity. ### Why are existing options not enough? -Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem. +Before requesting a new feature, please have a quick peek at [the list of supported options](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options). Many feature requests are for features that actually exist already! Please, absolutely do show off your work in the issue report and detail how the existing similar options do *not* solve your problem. ### Is there enough context in your bug report?